if you think your nervous system is overtaxed and upregulated now, imagine how it will feel when you no longer have the ectodermic containment of your skin as a semipermeable boundary
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i am maybe unusual in regarding long-time following as an intimate thing to do. i often experience other people’s tweets as happening inside me in some sense; they sort of enter my head the same way my own thoughts do. this is a lot of power to give someone! twitter.com/parafactual/st…
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what you describe has been my experience too, QC
i experience quite a lot of permeability vis-à-vis the vibes + emotions of others around me, especially in person, and am learning to modulate this by knowing my selfness so i have that support underneath relating to others
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skin, by virtue of arising from the same embryological tissue as our nervous systems, could be thought of as an extension of them
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tweet sounds dark but the resolution would be something like, can i fall into the sheltering embrace of my own skin to reestablish boundaries i may need to strengthen, but not become so cloistered that i can’t modulate this self-situatedness with my own beautiful permeability
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nice! have you read some of the "highly sensitive person" literature? i'm a little skeptical of some of their framing but would guess there is good practical advice there, about energetic boundaries, etc.
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yeah, the framing of that kind of thing is squiggy for me but i've been meaning to look into it
"i'M aN emPatH" is... relatable and red flaggy
i'm finding a lot of support through the somatics i explore, but i'd take recommendations if you have specific ones
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i know there's a lot of pushback on the "empath" stuff these days but for real lotta people out there with a lot of sensitivity who don't have cultural narratives for respecting it or working with it, like, i get it, lotta sympathy for those folks!
i think we're somewhere in beginning of the process of this change and i wish for a culture that can offer more support around it
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